Training 1-7

Hey, the end of a week! I made it an entire week. This is hardly an accomplishment, but it's taken some physical and mental focus to stick with it. I'm so far in the grind now, with health influencing my eating habits, inspiring me to purchase protein powder, and perform cardio every day - that there is NO turning back. A month though, that would be an accomplishment, because I usually drift off from fitness-related motivation after a week or so. So here's to three more weeks, here's to thirty more weeks!

Nothing special, didn't want to start intervals until next week, so this being somewhat my "cooldown day," I decided to hop on the bike one last time. I rode to 11 Mile Road again, not worrying about time at all, just figuring it would take 45 minutes, but it took no more than 40. I was trying to get my heartrate up as far as possible, so I'd stand up and pedal for as long as I could, as fast as I could possibly go. that really made this a more effective workout than usual. The whole way there and back I could maintain that off and on feel, so that means my stamina must be increasing, at least a bit. It was in essence like interval training, except on the bike and with shorter reps, bout 20-30 seconds of sprint, 40-60 seconds or sitting and pedaling. Good shit, my ankle isn't too soar like the last too days, in fact my body feels strangely alive, so I'll most definitley be doing interval training 2 - 3 days a week, in place of my cardio. Even if it's for 15-20 minutes, it's still an amazingly intense workout that works your body in ways that normal cardio can't. I want to LOSE weight, not maintain the same weight over time - Lord knows I've done that for years without even exercising.

So yeah, I was up late last night, despite feeling drowsy prior hours of that day, because I was motivated to finish a song. I had it layed out for me, all I had to do was record the guitars. I'm surprised that I had the energy and drive to do something like that, despite me 'pushin' it to the max' every day. Guess doing healthy things gives you energy, who knew? So this being my "day off," I should probably just go back to sleep...but I can't. I should probably not do any other exercising either, but I'm sort of addicted so that probably won't fly either. Guess that's a good thing though. I feel good.

So about half an hour after my cardio, I started the bodyweight training. I did all three areas today because I was pretty pumped for some reason. I did 60 pushups again, but this time in sets of 25, 15, and 20. I then did two sets of 100 crunches, I threw on an extra one so I could feel special. Afterwards I went outside and with the aid of my porch steps I did the entire Air Alert III Week 1 training, with the exception of the squat leaps. That includes 2 sets of 20 Leap-ups, 2 set of 10 calf raises, 2 sets of 10 step-ups, 2 sets of 15 thurst-ups, and 1 set of 100 burnouts. Right afterwards I came inside, washed off, and mixed me a protein shake, and at a banana alongside it. I got everything out of the way in a couple hours. I'm going to go stretch now, and then probably relax a good deal.

Talk to you soon.

Diet for Today
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Protein Shake
Banana
Yogurt
Baked Beans
Brown bread
Chicken Sandwich
Apple
x1 Gatorade
Water
Vitamin